I was banded on the 29th and have been doing really good. I haven't hardly taken any hydrocodone - just liquid tylenol. Well yesterday it happened for the first time but I was sitting at the computer and all of a sudden I had some really sharp pains under my right breast and everytime I would breath in it would just hurt and hurt. I laid down with heating pad and rested and it eased up. Well today I was going to my sisters house and driving down the road and all of a sudden I started having these pains and they felt like they were killing me. It felt like someone just kept stabing & stabing & stabing and I couldn't get it to quit. It has eased up some but when I breathe in it hurts so bad. I have been just fine and have been to the bathroom several times and still taking gas pills. Anyone have any suggestions or whatelse it might be. Thanks for any help.

It sounds like gas pains to me I was banded on the 28th and am feeling pretty well except for those lingering, stabbing, gas pains. My gas pains are mainly localized in my left shoulder. Supposedly the reason it hurts to bad is because the gas is somehow causing nerve pain.

I will think i need to burp and then instead of burping I will have an awful gas pain. I am 4 days post op and they are better today. I hope it gets better for you soon!

gas gas gas is all i can say i am 4 weeks post op and the 1st 5 days i though i wld just dye! good news! it does go away! its just from the surgery... gas ex wony help cause its in ur chest cavity... it will subside promise tracy

thanks - it just worried me b/c the first 2 days I did have the gas pains and knew that is what it was and then yesterday I felt so good besides that one time and then today has just been horrible. I have felt bad all day! I know it will go away. I go back to work on Monday so I hope it goes away soon!

Walk, walk, walk. It will help, I'm pretty sure.

I had the chest pains when breathing for about the first month, but it did lessen in intensity over time. Those pains finally went away, of course.

Hang in there!

Keep moving and get those GAS-X thin strips. They work great. I was also banded on the 29th and I put an ice pack across my stomach each night and it helped SO much????

Sounds like my gas pains too. I was banded on 7/21 and those pains lasted for about 5 days and disappeared when the burping/pooting began. I, too, was really nervous about not being able to breathe deep.

I was banded on the 24th and still have some lingering gas pains. I get one of my kids or my hubby to rub my back and it really helps move those pains one way or the other....

Well I have been burping and letting out gas pretty frequently. This is not the same type of pain that I felt in my stomach from the gas. Yesterday I called the docs hotline & they wanted me to go to the ER - it ended up that my ribs are just inflammed and I wasn't taking my pain medicine every 4 to 6 hours b/c I didn't think I would need it and so therefore my pain would be really bad before I would take it again. They have me taking 1 to 2 pain pills every 4 to 6 hours and then 2 iboprofeuns every 4 to 6 hours - in the middle of my pain med. This has really helped other than I am sooooo sleepy I can't hardly keep my eyes open. I am back at work today so we will see how long this will last.

this thread helps, cause I have gas pains that don't seem to want to go away, I have gas x strips only took one, it really helps?